A Berkeley museum is to hold a Discovery Day on August bank holiday.

Dr. Jenner’s House, Museum and Garden is holding the event from 11am-4.30pm on Monday, August 27.

The Chantry, on Church Lane, is the former home of Edward Jenner, famous as a pioneer of the smallpox vaccination.

As well as discovering vaccination Jenner also experimented with balloons and researched bird migration, cuckoos and fossils.

Scientists and researchers from around the country will come to Jenner’s former home to show how they are continuing his work.

Visitors to the museum will be able to find out about creatures that roamed Berkeley millions of years ago, explore the body’s defence system and track a weather balloon as it flies across the county.

The museum is also launching a virtual reality video game, The Chantry, to allow people to see Jenner’s house as it might have looked two hundred years ago.

Museum staff and volunteers will be joined by the Cheltenham Science Group, Bristol Dinosaur Project, British Society for Immunology and Royal College of Pathologists.

There will also be talks from BBC meteorologist Peter Gibbs and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust’s Geoff Hilton.

Family tickets are available for £12. For tickets or a full programme of events visit jennermuseum.com/discovery-day.